Falkor's Revenge, Port O'Brien, Videos, Photos

As previously mentioned, John and I did some playing with Van and Graham of Port O'Brien over the summer for the Bay Bridged feature 'New, Improved, Live'. The sessions came out this past week, resulting in some awesome videos and mp3's. Check out the below video, and for the rest of the session go here.

New, Improved, LIVE: Port O'Brien - "Leap Year" from The Bay Bridged on Vimeo.

Last week we ventured down to San Luis Obispo to guest on an episode of a new web series that's being filmed called 'Townies'. In our episode the show's star gets invited to an 'underground' show, and we were asked to play the band at the show - Falkor's Revenge - a ridiculously over-the-top noise band (kind of). Jameson couldn't make it down with us, so our friend Graham from KCPR stepped in to play Falkor no. 3. We don't wanna spoil too much (the series won't be online until January), but here's a video we took of our rehearsal:

While we were rehearsing our scenes this older guy was kind of milling around, convinced that Falkor's Revenge was a real band. And he LOVED it. He hung around for a while, trying to chat us up, and finally after we finished filming he found us behind the building and told us all about his band 'Baked Ham', how to expand our consciousness, the meaning of chaos and etc. Here is a video of him:




After we said good night to our No. 1 fan, we still had work to do. Falkor's Revenge was needed to film a scene outside of the venue, as the star approached. This was complicated and involved many extras, some with bikes, and the scene had to be shot over and over. The task was made more difficult due to that fact that we were in San Luis Obispo - a town that I love dearly but that is unfortunately full to the brim with the type of people that like to drive by groups of people and scream things from their cars. The shoot was interrupted about three times by this kind of thing, which probably added an extra hour or so. Here are some things people yelled:

"How can I get in this porno?"

"Fags!" (this person also threw a water balloon in the general direction of the crew)

"Butthole!" (really)

The whole experience was really fun, really funny, and we had a great time. Many thanks to Carl and his crew for letting us be Falkor's Revenge. Amazing.

Unfortunately we had to get back to Oakland the next day. Work. Sad face. On the way up the 101 we saw the following car, which pretty much iced the cake of a great trip south:




People are amazing.

Summertime Jamzzz

As I mentioned below, on Friday John and I played some music with Port O'Brien. Most of the band was out of town (Cambria is up in Alaska working, Ryan is on the east coast [?] ), and so John and myself were enlisted to help make some noise for a Bay Bridged feature called 'New Improved, Live'. Also present were new Port O'Brien multi-instrumentalist Graham Lebron, and Patrick Abernathy (formerly of Rogue Wave, Beulah, currently proud papa and leader of Pancho San).

POB has a new album coming in the fall, and so we played some new songs off of that, as well as an amazing Beyonce cover. Track titles include "Oslo Campfire" "Leap Year" and "Love Me Through". Good stuff to be sure, so be on the lookout! I don't know when the official videos will be released from the session, but until then, I've posted the below gems to hold you over.

Posters, News, Dopplegangers

We've had a pretty busy week, as usual it seems. Played shows in Oakland, Davis, and San Francisco... John and I went to San Luis Obispo for a few days, and then filled in as rhythm section for Port O'Brien for a fun recording session in Oakland (more on that next post).

This week finds us busy too, with a set on Wednesday night at the Stork Club in Oakland and a recording session (new material sooooon!) on Friday.

Worth mentioning:
After our set at the Knockout Wednesday, we of course went next door to Cancun for burritos and tortas. While we were eating John was like "oh man, is that Ryan Parks?" and I looked over, and it wasn't Ryan Parks, but it was clearly his doppleganger.